Lag

[Kreks]

After upgrading my computer I had 512mb ram and Nvidia GeForce 6600GT 128mb graphic card and game worked perfectly with high settings. Now I have 1,5gb ram and ATI Radeon HD 2400 series 512mb graphic card but game often lags. Is there anything to do to make game run perfectly?

[gtamodder]

Delete the gta_sa.set file.

[Deuce Deuce]

 

Delete the gta_sa.set file.

Which is located in My Documents\GTA San Andreas User Files, for the record.

 

I'm running SA on an ATi card and I'm getting pretty severe lag - and I still haven't rectified the problem as of yet. Apparently SA has issues running on the newer drivers, but I haven't found any older ones that work. On the official site, it just takes you to the latest one.

[cacarla]

Well if it still lags, try changing your in game settings.

 

Frame Limiter- Off

Anti-Aliasing- Off

Draw distance- nil or zero

Resolution- 640x480x16 or 32, i dont remember that properly

and finally bring down your sound acceleration to none.

This might help.

[gtamodder]

@cacarla: I think it may be better to have the Frame Limiter on, since I find if you have it OFF, the frames keep skipping every few seconds (it did on all my pc's), like you are getting 23fps for 2 seconds, drops to 4fps for 2 seconds, then backup and so on, but this did not happen with the FL on.

 

@Kreks: I had problems going from a Nvidia 6800 GT, to a HD 3870, after that the game would lag, no matter what I did. But I haven't had this problem with a Nvidia card, ever.

[cacarla]

@cacarla: I think it may be better to have the Frame Limiter on, since I find if you have it OFF, the frames keep skipping every few seconds (it did on all my pc's), like you are getting 23fps for 2 seconds, drops to 4fps for 2 seconds, then backup and so on, but this did not happen with the FL on.

 

Really!! i didnt know that Gtamodder. Thanks i'll do that from now on.

[Girish]

Frame Limiter- On

Anti-Aliasing- Off

Draw distance- nil or zero

Resolution- 640x480x32

Corrected.

 

And I don't think turning down sound acceleration would be a good idea or rather, an immediate necessity until he has tried a few other things first.

 

@Kreks: Have you updated your video driver since you got that new graphic card? If yes, try rolling back to an older version.

 

If nothing helps, the last option should be turning down sound acceleration. But the major downside of this is audio lag in cutscenes and random freezes in-game.

[Kreks]

Thanks everyone, I try to do what you told.

[xPain]

this happens to a friend.. he got lag when he have 1gb ram and 258 video...

but he was at full at the capacity of the hard disk...he remove somethings and it becomes faster (especially Video files)

 

maybe u are near to full the hard disk check that too

[XxBowDownxX]

wait what does deleteing gta_set do?

[gtamodder]

wait what does deleteing gta_set do?

It restores the game settings to default (the default settings used when you first run the game)